Scientists from several countries have tried to determine what killed Arafat and whether polonium played a role. He died in a French military hospital in 2004. Palestinians have long suspected Israel of poisoning him, which Israel denies.

Suha Arafat told reporters in Paris on Tuesday that the French scientists’ report excludes the possibility of polonium poisoning.

That’s in contrast to a recent Swiss lab report that said Arafat was probably poisoned by polonium, a rare and extremely lethal substance.

BANGKOK (AP) — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has returned to her office after five days away, but her effort to show that normalcy was returning to Thailand was upstaged by another rowdy anti-government rally at the national police headquarters.

After initially pledging to stage a peaceful march today, protesters knocked over concrete barriers and forced their way into the police compo